bootstrap-input-spinner

A Bootstrap 4 / jQuery plugin to create input spinner elements for number input.

Demo page with examples

Screenshot with floating point example and german localization.

Features

The Bootstrap 4 InputSpinner is

• mobile friendly and responsive,
• automatically changes value when holding button, boosts value change when holding button longer,
• has internationalized number formatting,
• allows setting a prefix or a suffix text in the input,
• handles val() like the native element,
• dynamically handles changing attribute values like disabled or class,
• dispatches change and input events on value change like the native element and
• works without extra css, only the bootstrap 4 standard css is needed.

Installation

npm install -save bootstrap-input-spinner

Or just download the GitHub repository and include src/bootstrap-input-spinner.js.

Usage

HTML

Create the element in HTML. The attributes are compatible to the native input[type="number"] element.

<input type="number" value="50" min="0" max="100" step="10"/>

Script

It is a jQuery plugin. So, enable the InputSpinner for all inputs with type='number' with the following script.

<script src="./src/bootstrap-input-spinner.js"></script>
<script>
    $("input[type='number']").inputSpinner();
</script>

Thats it. No extra css needed, just Bootstrap 4 and jQuery.

Syntax and configuration

HTML

<input type="number" value="4.5" min="0" max="9" step="0.1" data-decimals="2" data-suffix="°C"/>

Use these attributes to configure the behaviour

• value // starting value on element creation
• min // minimum value when stepping
• max // maximum value when stepping
• step // step size
• inputmode // the "inputmode" of the input, defaults to "decimal" (shows decimal keyboard on touch devices)
• data-step-max // max boost when stepping
• data-decimals // shown decimal places
• data-digit-grouping // "false" to disable grouping (thousands separator), default is "true"
• data-prefix // show a prefix text in the input element
• data-suffix // show a suffix text in the input element

The InputSpinner also handles the standard input attributes required, disabled, readonly and placeholder.

JavaScript

Use JavaScript to create the instance as a jQuery plugin. You may provide additional configuration in an object as a config parameter.

$(element).inputSpinner(config);

Configuration

The default configuration is

var config = {
    decrementButton: "<strong>-</strong>", // button text
    incrementButton: "<strong>+</strong>", // ..
    groupClass: "", // css class of the resulting input-group
    buttonsClass: "btn-outline-secondary",
    buttonsWidth: "2.5rem",
    textAlign: "center",
    autoDelay: 500, // ms holding before auto value change
    autoInterval: 100, // speed of auto value change
    boostThreshold: 10, // boost after these steps
    boostMultiplier: "auto" // you can also set a constant number as multiplier
}

The locale for number formatting is detected from the browser settings.

decrementButton, incrementButton

HTML of the texts inside the buttons.

groupClass

Additional css class for the input-group, results in

<div class="input-group ' + config.groupClass + '">

buttonsClass

The css class of the buttons. Use it to style the increment and decrement buttons as described here. Maybe buttonsClass: btn-primary or btn-success or whatever type of buttons you want.

buttonsWidth

The width of the increment and decrement buttons.

textAlign

The text alignment inside the <input>

autoDelay

The delay in ms after which the input automatically changes the value, when holding the increment or decrement button.

autoInterval

Speed of the value change when holding the button in ms. Lower value makes it faster.

boostThreshold

After these auto value changes the speed will increase with boostMultiplier.

boostMultiplier

The speed multiplier after boostThreshold steps of auto value change. If set to "auto" (default value) the multiplier will increase over time.

Programmatic change and read of value

The change or read the value just use the jQuery val() function on the input, like this

var currentValue = $(element).val() // read
$(element).val(newValue) // write

Hint: Reading the value in vanilla JS with element.value will also work, but to set the value you have to use element.setValue(newValue) or $(element).val(newValue)

Handling attributes

The attributes min, max, step, stepMax, decimals, placeholder, required, disabled, readonly and class are handled dynamically. The class attribute value is dynamically copied to the input element.

Sizing

If the original elements class is set to form-control-sm of form-control-lg the class of the resulting input-group is dynamically set to input-group-sm or input-group-lg.

Events

The InputSpinner handles input and change events like the native element.

Event handling with vanilla JavaScript

element.addEventListener("change", function(event) {
    newValue = this.value
})

Event handling with jQuery syntax

$(element).on("change", function (event) {
    newValue = $(this).val()
})

Minified version

I don't provide a minified version because I think it should be up to the using programmer to create minified versions, with all the used script sources concatenated to one file.

But, if you want it, it is easy to create your minified version with uglify: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uglify-js

Just install uglify

npm install uglify-js -g

and then in the src-folder

uglifyjs bootstrap-input-spinner.js --compress --mangle > bootstrap-input-spinner.min.js

Violà! :)

Browser support

The spinner works in all modern browsers and in the Internet Explorer. Not tested with IE < 11.

For older browsers (IE 9 or so), that doesn't support Intl, when you get an error message like "Intl is not defined" (See issue #34), just use a shim or polyfill like Intl.js, and it works.